{"id":67361,"date":"2024-10-21T13:00:04","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T04:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/oct\/21\/anti-abortion-us-global-gag-rule-nepal-family-planning-services"},"modified":"2024-10-21T13:00:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T04:00:04","slug":"one-man-anti-abortion-army-shadow-of-us-global-gag-rule-looms-over-nepals-family-planning-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67361","title":{"rendered":"\u2018One-man anti-abortion army\u2019: shadow of US global gag rule looms over Nepal\u2019s family planning services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the country legalised abortion, maternal mortality rates have plummeted. But US-funded programmes and a Trump victory could reverse that progress, warn experts<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne, two, three,\u201d says Soman Rai slowly, to the click of his fingers. \u201cEvery three seconds a baby dies by abortion. One, two, three,\u201d he repeats. Behind him, the word \u201cAbortion\u201d is projected on to a screen in a red font that drips down the slide to resemble blood. Underneath is written: Abortion is world history\u2019s greatest genocide.<\/p>\n<p>It is an uncompromising message in an unlikely location; a church in a remote valley in Nepal.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/oct\/21\/anti-abortion-us-global-gag-rule-nepal-family-planning-services\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the country legalised abortion, maternal mortality rates have plummeted. But US-funded programmes and a Trump victory could reverse that progress, warn experts\u201cOne, two, three,\u201d says Soman Rai slowly, to the click of his fingers. \u201cEvery three sec&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4449,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[542,59,566,346,241,1539,79,61,281,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-global-development","category-global-health","category-health","category-nepal","category-reproductive-rights","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-women","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4449"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67362,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67361\/revisions\/67362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}